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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Bible Believers' Newsletter 924

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.

Today we present Part IV of our teaching "Jubilee" wherein Brother Branham provides us with some specifics as to timing. So down on your knees for revelation, and if you have any corrections or suggestions on the subject we will be pleased to consider what you have to share. We covet your assistance and prayers.

Remember, your country whichever it is, is entering planned bankruptcy; economic screws are being tightened worldwide as the "powers that be"—who know not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel—press the Goyim into their totalitarian one world government. You will either learn to discipline your life or extremity will be imposed with military precision. We have entered the hour in which the foolish virgins are discovering their lamps have insufficient oil to penetrate the gloom; the wise scarcely suffice and "those that sell" peddle "the letter only".

Ministers and brethren who followed the Prophet's Ministry for decades are falling away "like rats" as he spoke of preachers who go to Los Angeles. "It's a graveyard for them. Good men go there and die like rats." Like the Buddhists, Boy Scouts, Baptists and Muslims, brethren have rejoiced in brotherly kindness with the anointing on their body and mortal spirit but never walked alone in the Spirit with Jesus Christ.

Since the opening of the Seals the call has not been to gather unbelievers out of Darkness into Christ but to call misguided believers out from denominational Darkness "into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation." It is that late. If you are a pastor you had better tend to your own flock—few are born-again.

Please send a copy of our newsletter to Christian friends within or without the circle of this Message. Some of the virgins may be foolish because you or I have not shared the revelation of the "present truth" . . . what Jesus is doing now.

If you have spreadsheet skills and are able and willing to construct a spreadsheet ranging over BC and AD years in which a change of year will change the whole range so as to reflect jubilees please contact me and we will define the parameters.

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Your brother-in-Christ Anthony Grigor-Scott

Americans: A Conquered People: The New Serfs

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Former US Asst. Sec. of Treasury for Economic Policy

May 23, 2016 — In my opinion, the American people will remain serfs until they wake up to Revolution. Today Americans exist as a conquered people. They have lost the Bill of Rights, the amendments to the Constitution that protect their liberty. Only those with power were safe. In America today anyone not politically protected can be declared "associated with terrorism" and taken out by a Hellfire missile from a drone on the basis of a list of human targets drawn up by the president's advisers. Due process, guaranteed by the US Constitution, no longer exists in the United States of America . . .

The United States government has unaccountable power. Its power is not accountable to US statutory law, to international law, to the Congress, to the judiciary, to the American people, or to moral conscience. In the 21st century the war criminal US government has murdered, maimed, and dislocated millions of people based on lies and propaganda. Washington has destroyed seven countries in whole or part in order to enrich the American elite and comply with the neoconservative drive for US world hegemony.

Americans live in a propaganda-fabricated world in which a brutal police state is cloaked in nice words like "freedom and democracy." "Freedom and democracy" is what Washington's war machine brings with sanctions, bombs, no-fly zones, troops, and drones to countries that dare to cling to their independence from Washington's hegemony.

Only two countries armed with strong military capability and nuclear weapons—Russia and China—stand between Washington and Washington's goal of hegemony over the entire world. If Russia or China falter, the evil ensconced in Washington will rule the world. America will be the Anti-Christ. The predictions of the Christian Evangelicals preaching "end times" will take on new meaning.

Russia is vulnerable to becoming a vassal state of Washington . . . Both Russia and China are infected with Western worship that creates a vulnerability that Washington can exploit. Delusions can result in inadequate response to threat.

All of Europe, both western, eastern and southern, the British Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Japan and other parts of Asia are vassal states of Washington's Empire. None of these allegedly "sovereign" countries have an independent voice or an independent foreign or economic policy. All of Latin America is subject to Washington's control . . . The repeal of Glass-Steagall deregulated Wall Street . . . Americans are a conquered people . . . Unable to stop the lawlessness of their own "democratic" government, Americans plea for help from abroad . . . change in America cannot be produced by elections or be achieved internally through peaceful means. Full story: paulcraigroberts.org

Comment: In AD96 Jesus declared the United States will be the image unto the Roman beast (Revelation 13:11-18).

Will the November US Presidential Election bring the End of the World?

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Former US Asst. Sec. of Treasury for Economic Policy

May 24, 2016 — "We have been watching for nearly a month a steady buildup of American and NATO forces along Russia's borders—on land, on sea and in the air. There has been nothing like this on Russia's borders, such an amassing of hostile military force, since the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941."

So concludes America's leading Russian expert, Professor Stephen Cohen (Princeton and New York University). Professor Cohen asks if Washington is sleepwalking and needs to wake up or whether Washington has gone crazy and intends war.

Escobar reports that recently the Rand Corporation, "essentially a CIA outpost," concluded that "Russia could overrun NATO in a mere 60 hours, if not less." On the level of nukes and missile systems, Russia is four generations ahead of the US military/security complex, which is mainly interested in inflating profits with cost overruns. US weapons systems are simply outclassed.

[In 1958 Brother Branham said, "Russia . . . according to our own science is five years ahead of us. And when we're caught up in five years, they'll be ten years farther the other way" (Handwriting on the Wall, #58-0309M)] . . . Russian high command is concerned with the Russian government's low-key response to Washington's aggression . . . Stephen Cohen and Alastair Crooke, a former British secret agent . . . have noticed that the Russian military . . . are putting pressure on President Putin to eliminate those in the government who are willing to compromise Russia's independence in order to gain acceptance by Washington . . . Washington is miscalulating by seeking unipolar hegemony and, thus, is forcing Putin into the camp of the nationalists who value Russia's sovereignty more than Western acceptance . . .

If Trump becomes US president, there is some possibility, perhaps, that the neoconservatives will cease to dominate US foreign and military policies. Should this turn out to be the case, the Russian nationalists might ease their pressure on Putin to remove the Atlanticist Integrationists from the government . . . no matter what you think of Trump, if you vote for Hillary you are definitely voting for the end of the world. Full story: paulcraigroberts.org

The Real Energy Deniers

May, 2016 — Today's massive global human population owes its existence, prosperity and comfort to our economical and reliable energy supplies, particularly the hydrocarbon fuels—oil, coal, and gas. The world supports more people with fewer famines; and those with access to abundant reliable energy supplies have stabilised their populations and contribute most to caring for nature, culture and the poor. And the carbon dioxide recycled by the usage of hydrocarbon fuels is greening the world and adding to food supplies as native and farmed plants flourish in the warm, moist, carbon-rich atmosphere.

This long history of energy progress is now under threat from strong forces using any environmental alarm to deny human access to efficient energy . . . their energy-destroying policies will reduce global prosperity and population . . . Some see that as a desirable goal . . . Full story: carbon-sense.com

May 23, 2016 — "I will lecture until June 29 the sins of the Catholic Church and whether or not you are still relevant," Philippines' president-elect Mr. Duterte told reporters in Davao City, where he is the incumbent mayor . . . he once chided Pope Francis for holding up traffic when the pontiff visited capital city Manila. About 80 per cent of the Philippines population are Catholic. It has the largest Catholic concentration of any Asian country . . . Full story: abc.net.au

Jubilee Part IV

"Religious people put Paul in chains. The very finest of churches that day was what put him in chains. If it just wasn't the Constitution of the United States, they'd do the same thing today. That's right. Just wait till she's broke a little more" [Revelation 13:15-20].

"And a serpent grabbed him through the hand. Now, watch. Paul didn't fear. He said, Jesus Christ said, 'If they take up serpents, it shall not harm them.' So he walked over here, shaked him off on the fire; turns around and walks over to get some sticks and put back on the fire; turned hisself around and warmed his back, and turned around this way and warmed his hands. The natives said, 'Why don't he die? Why don't that man die? He ought to drop dead?' But Paul was so full of the Holy Ghost (See what I mean?), so full of the Holy Ghost until the poison wouldn't poison him."

"Oh, brother, give me a church full of the Holy Ghost. God will do in one year what all theology has failed to do in two thousand years. You wait till the anointing of the church really strikes home to that faithful the little [Capstone] remnant. After the doors of the Gentiles is closed, oh, God will anoint a church then. "He who's filthy, let him be filthy still. He who's righteous let him be righteous still, and he who's holy let him be holy still." And God will anoint the church with the power of God, and things will be taken place. Not only that then, but He's doing it now" (COD, p. 145:201-203).

Brother Branham was speaking of the manifestation of the Sons of God in the year of Jubileeafter the end of the Christian dispensation and grace. In "The Seventy Weeks of Daniel" he said, "The Gentile church is in the end of the Laodicean Age. If . . . the Jews are in their homeland, already there, and the Gentile apostasy has already taken place, and we have a President like we have, we have a nation that's broke up like we have, we have atomic bombs hanging in the hangers, we have a church that's lukewarm, we have a church of people that's pulled theirselves together, we have a ministry that patterns the ministry of Jesus Christ for to catch the Stone when He comes, what's left to happen? It might be at any minute. There isn't nothing else left. We're at the end time. Oh, glory! I don't know whether I'm going to be able to get into that jubilee or not, but I just want to get part of it to you anyhow."

"We're waiting for that Stone . . . Now, a striking statement if you want to put it down. Listen close, please. This is my last comment, next to it. I got a little bitty thing here just after this, a little note I want to speak about. Now, rest just a moment and listen close. Give you something that's striking to go right in on this. See? There's not even a width of a knife blade between the end of this age and the coming of Christ. Everything . . . There's nothing else left. Is Israel in her homeland? We know that. Are we in the Laodicean Age? Has the Message of this Pentecostal age went forth to try to shake the people back to the original Pentecostal blessing? Has every messenger come through the age just exactly the same thing? Is the nations against nations? Pestilence? Is there a famine in the land today, the true church driving hundreds of miles seeking to hear the Word of God? Not for bread alone, but for hearing of the Word of God, there come famine. Is that right? Why, we're living right in the middle of it right here now. See where we're at? We're waiting for that Stone."

"A striking statement: from the time God made the promise to Abraham—don't miss this—from the time God made the promise to Abraham, Genesis 12:3, to the time of Christ being rejected in AD33, by the Jews, according to Galatians 3:16 and 17, and according to Usher's (U-s-h-e-r-s) Ussher's Chronology of the Hebrews, the power of God was with the Jews exactly 1954 years. God dealt with the Jews [Israelites] 1954 years according to the chronology of the Jews [Israelites] and according to Galatians 3:16 and 17 [1921BC + AD33 = 1954 years]. I got many more Scriptures, but just give that. Then after they rejected Christ, He turned to the Gentiles to take a people for His Name. You want a Scripture on that, the place? Acts 15:14" [also Isaiah 11:10-11; 54:1-5; 56:7; Amos 9:11-12; Malachi 1:11].

"Now, counting the time, we find that we have exactly (listen) seventeen years left, and we will have the same span of cronoV (chronos) time given to us as God dealing with us in the power of the Holy Spirit since AD33 until 1977, the same span of time of 1954 years. God deals with us the same as He did with the Jews. See? How about that?"

"Now, mark down in your book a little Scripture here I want to give you. Leviticus 25, begin with the 8th verse. God calls a jubilee every forty-ninth year; the fiftieth year was the jubilee. We know that. We understand that. From the first jubilee of Leviticus 25:8, in 1977 will be the seventieth jubilee, making exactly 3,430 years. Jubilee means the going up, the release" (The Seventieth Week of Daniel, p. 107:159, 195-197).

Seventeen stands out very prominently as a significant number. It is not a multiple of any other number, and therefore it has no factors. Hence it is called one of the prime (or indivisible) numbers. What is more, it is the seventh in the list of the prime numbers. The series runs 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, etc. [0 and 1 are not generally recognized as prime numbers].

In like manner seventeen being the seventh of the series, it partakes of and intensifies the significance of the number seven. Indeed, it is the combination or sum of two perfect numbers—seven and ten—seven being the number of spiritual perfection, and ten of ordinal perfection. Contrasted together the significance of these two numbers is clear; and when united in the number seventeen we have a union of their respective meanings, viz., spiritual perfection, plus ordinal perfection, or the perfection of spiritual order.

We see a beautiful illustration in Romans 8:35-39 which concludes the first great division of that all-important Epistle, and sums up the blessings of those who are dead and risen in Christ. First we have a series of seven, then a series of ten. The seven are marked off by being put in the form of a question, while the ten are given as the answer to it.

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall

Tribulation,

Or distress,

Or persecution,

Or famine,

Or nakedness,

Or peril,

Or sword?

as it is written, For Thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that,

Neither death (1),

Nor life (2),

Nor angels (3),

Nor principalities (4),

Nor things present (5),

Nor things to come (6),

Nor powers (7),

Nor height (8),

Nor depth (9),

Nor any other creature (10),

shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Thus is set forth the spiritual and eternal perfection of the believer's standing in Christ.

By forming the conclusive answer to the question, and giving us the positive assurance (though in a negative form), it seems as though the number ten is of more weight than seven when thus used together. It is so in II Chronicles 2, where, in verse 7, Solomon sends to Hiram for a cunning workman, and seven particulars are specified; and in verse 14 a man is sent and his qualifications are enumerated in ten particulars. A more important illustration will be found in Hebrews 12:18-24, and many other examples.

As the result of our investigations in numbers, 153 = 9 x 17, we see in this number all judgment (9) exhausted for the people of God (17) in the person of their Surety.

The number seventeen (not the word merely) has a significance of its own, and therefore an importance which must be taken into account wherever it appears in the Word of God by itself or as a factor. It forms a great factor in the number 153. (See Number in Scripture).

As I understand Brother Branham, the first cycle counted from Israel's entry into Canaan when Moses was alive and the tribes of Reuben, Gad and half of the tribe of Manasseh took possession of their inheritance east of the River Jordan (Numbers 32:33) so that this was the first Sabbatical year. The year Moses died and Joshua entered the land was long ago determined by Bishops Ussher, Lloyd, Nicholas Toinard and William Wiston as 1451BC. We generally use Ussher's chronology except for the dates for the birth, baptism and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. After seven years of conflict with the Canaanites, the land had rest from war at the close of 1445BC [Nisan 1451 - 1444 = 7], then Joshua in Gilgal gave Judah and Joseph their allotments. Early 1444, the tabernacle was moved to Shiloh and the land west of the Jordan was divided among the remaining seven tribes and the men from the two-and-a-half tribes east of the Jordan returned home. Until this, Israel had lived off the crops of the Canaanites, volunteer crops and supplies from the eastern two-and-a-half tribes (Joshua 24:13). Israel's tillage thus began in 1444.

Thirty jubilees after their entry into the Promised Land Israel murdered Messiah; now forty jubilees since redemption in Christ ended has brought us to the seventieth jubilee and the consummation of the Gentiles. Brother Branham said, "I sincerely believe and maintain as a private student of the Word, along with divine inspiration that 1977 ought to terminate the world systems and usher in the millennium" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 322:4).

Revelation 3:10, "Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." This verse is not a declaration that the true Church will go into and through the tribulation. If it meant that it would have said that. But it said, "I will keep thee from the hour of temptation." This temptation is exactly like the temptation in Eden. It will be a very inviting proposition held up in direct opposition to God's commanded Word, and yet from the standpoint of human reasoning it will be so very right, so enlightening and life-giving as to fool the world" [II Thessalonians 2:11]. Only the very elect will not be fooled [Revelation 13:8]. The temptation will come as follows. The ecumenical move that has started on what seems such a beautiful and blessed principle (fulfilling Christ's prayer that we all might be one) becomes so strong politically that she bears pressure upon the government to cause all to join with her either directly or through adherence to principles enacted into law so that no people will be recognized as actual churches unless under direct or indirect domination of this council. Little groups will lose charters, privileges, etc., until they lose all property and spiritual rights with the people."

"For example, right now unless the local ministerial association approves in many, if not most cities, one cannot rent a building for religious services. To become chaplains in the armed services, hospitals, etc., it is now almost mandatory to be recognized as acceptable to the trinitarian ecumenical groups. As this pressure increases, and it will, it will be harder to resist, for to resist is to lose privilege. And so many will be tempted to go along, for they will feel it is better to serve God publicly in the framework of this organization than not to serve God at all publicly. But they err. To believe the Devil's lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him Jehovah. But the elect will not be deceived."

"Furthermore, the elect will not only be kept, but as this move becomes the "IMAGE ERECTED TO THE BEAST," the saints will be gone in the rapture. And this little delightful, winsome movement that started out in fellowship at Ephesus will become the monster of Satan that defiles and deceives the whole world. For the church system of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant in coming together will control the whole wealth of the world system and force the whole earth into its religious trap, or will kill them, by refusing them the privilege of buying and selling whereby they would make a living. This will be accomplished simply, for the harlot's daughters are all but gone back to her. In the meantime, Rome has acquired nearly all the supplies of gold. The Jews have the bonds and all the paper. At the right time, the harlot will destroy the present day money system by calling in all the paper, and demanding gold. With no gold, the system falls. The Jews will be trapped and come into the alliance, and the harlot church will take over the whole world" (Ibid, p. 313:2 - 314:1).

In calculating jubilees one must remember Israel was an agrarian economy, thus God's appointed times of meeting with His people necessarily followed the harvest of the land, typing the harvest of souls. This harvest of the field is dependent upon the annual cycle of the S_U_N as the harvest of souls follows the dispensational cycle of the S_O_N. Since the Great Flood the years are no longer composed of twelve 30-day months so Israel's calendar was necessarily adjusted every second or third year by extending the twelfth month; nowadays by the addition of a thirteenth month, otherwise God's compulsory annual feasts would not fall on the appointed seasons.

We follow the S_O_N'S prophetic years of 360 days and durationrather than succession of years and chronological dates: to kairoV (kairos) seasons or dispensations—definitely limited portions of time in which to grasp 'opportunities' by making the right decisions, rather than with cronoV (chronos) time, the course of time in general. But to establish datum posts we will commence our study with a day-by-day timeline from the birth of the Israel nation.

Brother Branham was speaking of 1977 as the sum of a durationof jubilee years, not the product of a succession of years and chronological dates which is why he said "I predict, I do not prophesy." He provided the 'clue' but he was not permitted to directly explain the 'third pull,' which can only be known by revelation. We will consider chronos time in connection with Israel's early years and God's ideal for the nation. The sacred mathematics behind all of these times and seasons that God gave Israel through His prophet Moses have been in existence from the foundation of the world and did not spring up at Mount Sinai, for "the Word of God is forever settled in heaven" and since He is omniscient He can never change His ways (Psalm 119:89; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8).

Day 1, Nisan 1, 1491BC, New Year's Day in Israel's sacred calendar, Exodus 12:2, "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Day 10-14, Exodus 12:2-6: On the tenth day each man shall select a yearling male lamb for his paternal family, confine it four days to prove it is without blemish, then at twilight on the fourteenth of the month the whole congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs. A type of Jesus Christ who on His triumphal entry into Jerusalem was proclaimed "the Son of David" and implored "save us now." His authority was questioned from Tuesday to Friday but proven by many parables. He was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, arrested and arraigned before the high priest, denied by Peter, questioned by the Sanhedrin, condemned to death by the whole congregation of Israel, found innocent by Pontius Pilate, yet crucified on the fourteenth of the month.

Day 15-21, Exodus 12:29-51, the first Passover meal initiated the seven days of Unleavened Bread "It came to pass the self-same day that the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies." In Exodus 13:1-10, Moses prophesied that on Nisan 15 (the following year, God intended that) Israel observe their second Passover meal and the first day of their feast of Unleavened Bread on the border of the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 1:2 states "It is eleven day's journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir [Edom] to Kadesh-barnea [the boundary of Judah]." There the adult Israelites disbelieved God's Word and were blotted from the Book of Life; not until forty years had passed would the new generation observe the feast of Passover in Canaan (Joshua 5:9 – 6:11).

Had Israel journeyed to the border of the Promised Land from Sinai in eleven days they would have crossed the Jordan to Jericho on Pentecost one-year after their arrival at Mount Sinai as God had intended.

Day 16, Leviticus 23:9-14, the feast of Firstfruits and the first day of the feast of Weeks or Pentecost.

Day 21, Exodus 13:17-21 and Numbers 33:1-8. It appears that the Israelites having passed through the Red Sea spent the holy convocation of the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread in Arabia (Exodus 2:15; 3:1, 12; Deuteronomy 1:2; Isaiah 11:15-16; Galatians 4:25).

Day 45, Exodus 16:1-36, when Israel reached the wilderness of Sin on the fifteenth day of the second month (Iyyar) they murmured and God sent manna and quail.

Day 61, 1491BC, Exodus 19:1, "In the third month after the children of Israel had gone forth from the land of Egypt, the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai." Mount Sinai is located in the Land of Midian, which is in Saudi Arabia and not as indicated on the map in your Bible, in the Sinai Peninsula which is in Egypt today as it was then (Exodus 2:15; 3:1; 12; Deuteronomy 1:2; 2:5; Isaiah 11:15-16; Ezekiel 35:2; Galatians 4:24-25). Now Moses ascended the mountain where God instructed him to command the people to sanctify themselves three days. Scripture indicates that God's intent was to initiate a Pentecostal Jubilee of liberty to the children of Israel but because of their sin they received the Day of Atonement.

Day 64, Exodus 19:10 – 24:8, God recited the Ten Commandments then Moses wrote the statutes and judgments and read "the Book of the Covenant in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord has said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these Words".

Day 65-104, Exodus 24:9 – 32:29. The holy convocation of the fiftieth day of Pentecost is always the sixty-fifth day of the sacred year. From Day 64 to Day 71 "the glory of God" covered the Mount and on the seventh day Moses ascended into the Cloud and remained 33 more days in the Mount to receive the stone tables of Law and testimony and then descended to discover that Israel had broken its Covenant and was worshipping a golden calf.

Day 106, Exodus 32:30 – 34:2, 28. Moses ascended the Mount for a further forty days to hew two more tables of stone upon which God would engrave the Ten Commandments.

Day 146-147, Exodus 34:27-35, Moses descended and his face shone with the glory of God. The following day he began requisitioning materials from which to fabricate the Tabernacle and appointing master craftsmen chosen by the Lord.

Had Israel honoured God's Covenant at Pentecost there would in theory have been no Day of Atonement, but the Lamb had to be killed and sin's price met before He could impart His Life to the new creation of God-men. As Paul explained in Hebrews 11:39-40, "The Old Testament saints, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise [of eternal inheritance sealed by Christ's sacrifice until His resurrection, having remitted their accumulated sins by cleansing the sanctuary with His own Blood]: God having provided some better thing for us [than they had in this world—remission of sins, regeneration and perfection in this life through new birth by faith of Jesus our KINSMAN who redeemed us all on Calvary] that apart from us they should not be made perfect [regenerated, glorified and complete]" (Hebrews 12:1-2, 23; 9:15, 23; Romans 8:29-30). "When the Day of Pentecost was full come . . . having taken, and by wicked hands crucified and slain" Messiah, Israel rejected the Day of Pentecost a second time.

Day 361, Nisan 1, 1490BC. "And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up" and dedicated (Exodus 40:1-2, 17, 34; Numbers 1:1; 9:15-23). The Lord signified His abode by the Pillar of Fire as He would at the dedication of Solomon's Temple (I Kings 8:11), at the baptism of His new Temple, our Lord Jesus (Matthew 3:16-17), at the inauguration of His Body the Church (Acts 2:3), and as He will over New Jerusalem in the renewed heavens and renewed earth (Revelation 21:23-24).

Day 410, Iyyar (second month) 20, 1490BC. The Pillar of Cloud was raised from the Tabernacle and Israel commenced a forty-day journey (Numbers 10:11).

Day 413-420, Numbers 10:33-36; after three day's journey the Israelites complain about manna and the Lord sends quail thirty days (Numbers 11). Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses' black second wife. The Lord smites Miriam with leprosy and the camp does not move for seven more days (Numbers 12); in total a 40-day delay to God's intended program.

Day 425, God intended Israel to cross over into the Promised Land on Pentecost morning, departing Mount Sinai on Iyyar 20 and arriving on the Sivan 1, the anniversary of their arrival at Sinai the previous year. We know this because "eleven days" (Deuteronomy 1:2) is a precise number. This leads us to speculate three day's sanctification before crossing the Jordan (as in Exodus 19:14-16, and ultimately Joshua 3:1-5; 4:19), exactly one year after the Sinai Covenant.

Day 450, Sivan (third month) 30, 1490BC Joshua sent twelve elders to spy out the land for forty days (Numbers 13:1-24).

Day 491, Spies return with an evil report (Numbers 13:25-33). The Lord God decrees, "Your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses are wasted in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know My breach of promise." Israel then presumed to enter the Promised Land and was defeated by the Amalekites and Canaanites (Numbers 14:1, 25, 33-34, 40-45).

Day 550, Tishri 10, 1490BC. The Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16; 23:26-32; Numbers 29:7-11). On this day jubilee was proclaimed every 49 years (Leviticus 25:8-55; 27:17-24). Jubilee cycles were intended to commence from this date, but because of unbelief they were delayed forty more years until 1451BC (Numbers 14:33-34).

Day 555-562, Tishri 15, 1490. The Feast of Tabernacles commemorates the journey from Egypt to Canaan wherein Israel dwelt in tents and recalls with thanks the produce on the trees when they had entered Canaan. The Eighth day of the feast was a special Sabbath, signifying eternity in the renewed heavens and renewed earth (Exodus 23:16b; 34:22b; Leviticus 23:33-36, 39-43; Numbers 29:12-38; Deuteronomy 16:13-15. These calculations are based upon Scripture and the 360-day prophetic calendar.

The unbelieving adults that came out of Egypt in the exodus on Nisan 15, 1491BC perished over forty yearsin the wilderness because they had rejected the Holy Spirit at Kadesh-barnea. The new generation of Israelites crossed over Jordan to the Promised Land on Nisan 10, 1451BC (Joshua 3:12-17; 4:19). God said, "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord" (Leviticus 25:2). "The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on Nisan 14 at evening in the plains of Jericho. And they ate of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land and parched corn in the selfsame day . . . they ate the fruit of the land of Canaan [not manna] that year" (Joshua 5:9-12).

Interjecting you will recall Paul's warning, "Never forget that although our fathers were all under the Cloud, and all passed through the sea, and as followers of Moses were baptized in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. Nevertheless God was displeased with most of them; for they were overthrown in the wilderness. These things occurred as examples for us that we may not lust after evil as they lusted" (I Corinthians 10:1-6).

Taken in conjunction with figures Brother Branham revealed we see these borderline believers as a shadow and type of those who "came OUT of her" but did not "come into the unity of the faith" (Revelation 18:4; Ephesians 4:13). "Once enlightened having tasted of the heavenly gift and made sharers of the Holy Ghost, they felt how good the Word of God is and the mighty powers of the world to come," and having followed the Message in this 'third exodus' right up to the border of the eternal land of the millennium whither we are destined, they disbelieved God's Promise (Hebrews 6:4-6).

Forty is universally recognized as an important number, both on account of the frequency of its occurrence, and the uniformity of its association with a period of probation, trial, and the chastisement of sons, and of a Covenant people). It is the product of 5 and 8, and points to the action of grace (5), leading to and ending in revival and renewal (8). This is certainly the case where forty relates to a period of evident probation. But where it relates to enlarged dominion, or to renewed or extended rule, then it does so in virtue of its factors 4 and 10, and in harmony with their signification. (See Number in Scripture).

God declared a sabbath for the land for the remaining six months of "that year" from Nisan 10, 1451 to the beginning of the Civil New Year on Tishri 10, 1451 wherein the land was to lay fallow—its spontaneous produce common property of the poor, the stranger, cattle and wild game. Israel was at liberty to consume the abandoned storehouses and to pick the ripening wheat crop but not to sow until the commencement of the New Civil Year. Thereafter they could plant and harvest Tishri-to-Tishri, commencing Tishri 1451BC. Every seventh year was a sabbatical year running Nisan-to-Nisan (March or April). The year of Jubilee was announced at the close of the Day of Atonement in the forty-ninth year of the week of years. This fiftieth year ran from Tishri 10 (September or October) that year to Tishri 10 in the first year of the succeeding sabbatical cycle of forty-nine years. These weeks of years commenced when the children of Israel entered Canaan in 1451BC (Leviticus 25:1-22). The forty-ninth year of the first Cycle was Nisan 1, 1404BC to Nisan 1, 1403BC, and the first Jubilee (or fiftieth) Year was Tishri 10, 1404BC to Tishri 10, 1403BC.

Brother Branham's end-time Message is our "former" or "teaching rain," the "midnight cry" of Matthew 25:6, the "shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16 that called us OUT from Rome and her apostate (once) Protestant daughter churches to meet the Bridegroom (Revelation 10:1-4; 18:4) and be filled with the Spirit. The elect wise and non-elect foolish virgins each heard the call, recognized truth and came out. Like philanderers the foolish virgins are not wholly separated unto Christ. James 4:4, "You [spiritual] adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."

"The old man" is not dead, he is dominant: they are adulteresses. "The Voice of the Archangel" Jesus Christ can't whisper His amours to a paramour. Worldly pursuits and sinner companions preponderate over the soul, allowing no intimacy with Jesus.

The "former rain" of the "shout and Voice of the Archangel," is Christ's love-making, communicating intimate secrets that will draw two hearts into one mind. When the Seventh or Great Trumpet sounds the "latter" or "harvest rain" will strike the world; it will fall upon the just and the unjust, sinner and saint, bringing the seed sown into men's hearts to manifest what has been planted, cultivated, and watered. All decisions will have been made: "He who is unjust will be unjust still: he who is filthy will be filthy still: the righteous will be righteous: and he who is holy will remain holy" (Revelation 22:11). Christ's end-time Bride will manifest that they are the Sons of God, and the foolish virgins will be martyred.

Brother Branham said, "Now, there will come another year of Jubilee and that, we've had it just about this time. If you noticed, Pentecost has been falling in America for about fifty years, somewhere on that time. Just about fifty years ago Pentecost begin to fall. Now, what's happening, the church is receiving the Seven Sealed Book of "The Revelation of Jesus Christ"of the Seven Seals and not one tenth of them can receive it."

[Not so many as a tithe of Message followers are able to receive the revelation of the Prophet's Message].

"But when you begin to see the year of Jubilee, where we don't have to fuss and strain and pull like this, but we're already secured in Christ . . . What a beautiful story . . . I want to get these Seventy Weeks of Daniel and tie it right in here, and show it where it takes it to the Pentecostal Jubilee, and brings it right back with those Seven Seals to opened here just before we go, and show that it's at the end" (Revelation, Chapter Five, #II, p. 779:181-182, 216; The Feast of the Trumpets, p. 29:226-246).

Students of the Message understand that Christ's end-time Bride was accounted caught up with the sleeping saints of all Ages at the close of Laodicea (Revelation 4:1). Being predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word by the revelation of the mysteries of the Seven Thunders we were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary and do not require mediation for ignorance of "that which is perfect [or complete]" (I Corinthians 13:10). We were each present in our angel or celestial body—the theophany of our glorified likeness as witnesses to the heavenly transaction when Christ claimed the Title Deed to redemption and opened the Seals (Revelation 5:5-12).

The Jubilee for Christ's Bride is a Pentecostal Jubilee: by grace through faith we received our Day of Atonement in Christ as Attributes of the Logos or Word and are accounted crucified in Him on Calvary (II Corinthians 5:13-21; Colossians 3:3-4). "Jesus Messiah was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification" (Romans 4:25). He paid the supreme penalty: as Attributes of the Word we were in Him then; we paid for our sins in Christ on Calvary and when He was justified and raised we were justified and raised in Him. "And as it is appointed once to die" there is no double jeopardy (Hebrews 9:27). He who is born-again is free from sin. Oh, you will make mistakes, but you will not sin because sin is unbelief in the revealed Word of God, and you are the Word for your age manifest (I John 1:7).

I John 3:6, 9, "Whosoever abides in Him does not sin: whosoever sins has not seen Him, neither known Him . . . Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for His seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God" (I Peter 2:21-25).

Romans 8:1-3, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of sin and death. For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh." Hence you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done (John 15:7). nl924.htm

Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Bible Believers' Newsletter 923

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; it is so good to see you again.

The news items this week show once again how incurably corrupt the once Christian nations have become. The pale horse rider has an immense following yet multitudes are impatiently gathering for the one way Revelation 6:8 ride to perdition.

Our main article completes a three-part exposition on "Shadows and Types," today focusing upon Israel's historical feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and feast of Tabernacles on which learned men of God have penned volumes. Our objective was to compare the natural types with the spiritual antitypes demonstrating the simplicity of God's Word and providing a means whereby you can make faith sure by the Absolute of God's unchanging Word to confirm the present Truth".

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Your brother-in-Christ Anthony Grigor-Scott

On Europe and 'the Faith'

May 1, 2016 — In September 2015 Ronald S. Lauder, the head of the World Jewish Council, said that "never in the past 2,000 years have relations between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people been so good . . . Pope Francis . . . His clear and unequivocal support for the Jewish people is critical to us." A prostrating Pontiff, overseeing millions of compliant Catholics worldwide, is indeed critical to Jewish interests.

Francis may be seen as the perfect culmination of the Second Vatican Council, which was orchestrated by Jewish converts to Catholicism and annihilated the remaining power of the Catholic Church as a force for European culture. The poisonous seeds have given rise to a truly rotten tree, or in the interpretation of Francis himself: "The Council, with the declaration Nostra Aetate, paved the way. It said yes to the rediscovery of the Jewish roots of Christianity, and no to any form of anti-Semitism and condemnation of any insult, discrimination and persecution derived from that."

Not only a traitor to the European race, Francis is either intellectually insipid or a disingenuous cretin. In January this man, who claims to be God's emissary on earth, argued that "Europe has the means to absorb refugees without sacrificing its security or culture." The Holy Father was presumably here referring to the thefts, rapes, bombs and deaths that have illustrated the remarkable success the Continent has met with thus far in preserving its culture and security in the face of mass foreign incursion . . ." Full story: theoccidentalobserver.net

Comment: Multiculturalism is the original sin and accursed from Genesis to Revelation (Genesis 1:11; 25; Matthew 24:37; Genesis 6:1-4). Christianity has NO "Jewish" roots, the Bible is NOT a Jewish Book, the modern word 'Jew' did not enter any Bible in any language until the latter part of the 19th century, and a miniscule percentage of their number are related to Jacob or even Semitic.

Who Controls Donald Trump?

May 5, 2016 — Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are Jewish. Be sure to read the comments. Full story: thezog.info

America and NATO's Outrageous Behavior, Greatest Threat that Exists

May 20, 2016 — On May 18th, two top people at NATO, one being its current Secretary General—the very top person—laid out in preliminary form the case for war against Russia, which presumably will be presented in more detail at the NATO Summit to be held in Poland on 8-9 July this year.

As if that weren't bad enough, there's the matter reported by Bryan Cloughly at Strategic Culture, headlining on May 19th, "Surging Towards yet Another War," where he pointed out that:

"The United States has no territorial rights of any sort, in the South China Sea which is 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometres) from its west coast. There is nothing in international law that justifies its unilateral military 'challenge' to China's presence" there, in that area which is contested between five countries: China, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei. The American government, which has no authority to speak for the entire world regarding international law—of which the US itself has been perhaps the most frequent violator during the past 16 years—isn't "policeman of the world," certainly not judge and jury and executioner (well, maybe executioner) of the world, but instead it's merely an aspiring global thug: "The Pentagon declared on 10 May that China's 'excessive maritime claims are inconsistent with international law as reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention in that they purport to restrict the navigation rights that the United States and all states are entitled to exercise'." Cloughly points out the US "refuses to ratify the Law of the Sea Convention—while ordering every other country to abide by it."

America's—and NATO's—biggest danger to the world, however, is its (their) aggressions against Russia . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

USA: How to make them give a Damn?

May 12, 2016 — In a report published in the American journal, National Security News, on May 9th, the day of the celebration of the victory of Soviet and allied forces over the fascist forces in 1945, it was stated that, "in terms of the eastern threat—which is a reference to Russia-EUCOM (the American Forces European Command) will be moving from a training to a war fighting stance."

The article continues, "this does not mean that the US is planning a war with Russia, merely that it will shift its force structure in a manner aimed at deterring Moscow and defending NATO and European partners should Russian President Vladimir Putin attempt what he has done in Ukraine" . . . What are the wars in Ukraine, in Syria, the destruction of Yugoslavia and Libya, but a part of the [US] war against Russia? . . . "The United States quite simply doesn't give a damn about the United Nations, international law or critical dissent, which it regards as impotent and irrelevant." "How to make them give a damn," [Harold Pinter] once asked me, "before they kill us all?" . . . Full story: journal-neo.org

America's Outrageous Ultimatum: Syria as the Libya of the Levant

May 7, 2016 — How the United States presumes to possess the authority to determine the fate of a sovereign nation thousands of miles from its own shores in the Middle East is never explained by [Jewish] US Secretary of State John Kerry when he recently announced a new ultimatum levelled at Damascus. Nor is it explained why Syria should capitulate to US demands to begin a political transition that has demonstrably left other nations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) divided, destroyed, and safe-havens for state-sponsored terrorism years after "successful" US-backed regime change has been achieved–Libya most notably . . . "Kerry warns Assad to start transition by August 1 or else," the United States fully expects Damascus to concede to a "political transition" engineered by Washington, leaving the nation in the hands of verified terrorists linked directly to the political and militant forces currently laying waste to Libya and those nations that put them into power . . . America essentially demands Syria's surrender to Al Qaeda . . . Full story: journal-neo.org

From Golden Dollar to Petro Dollar to Narco Dollar

May 9, 2016 — The role as world reserve currency is something no financial hegemon in history has willingly surrendered. It took two world wars for the City of London and Bank of England to reluctantly concede hegemony of the Pound Sterling to the Dollar. As Henry Kissinger is said to have remarked decades ago, "If you control the money, you can control the entire world." Whether or not Kissinger ever said that publicly, he and his patron, David Rockefeller, certainly believed it. Now, with US government debt shooting past $19 trillion and the true state of the American economy and its infrastructure at its worst since the Great Depression, with most Americans living on the brink of financial disaster, the brilliant financial engineers of Wall Street and Washington have once again come up with a scheme to prolong the role of Dollar as King in the world economy . . . the way is clear to make the USA the new Switzerland or Panama. Drug cartels of the world are already clearly informed and a good share of the estimated $1.6 trillion of criminal funds annually are searching new safe havens in Reno and other US hot money havens. From a golden dollar to a petro dollar to now a narco dollar. It's pretty pathetic for the country that was once the world's leading industrial technology leader. Full story: journal-neo.org

Comment: In place of humiliating Russia, the "economic war" Washington and Brussels promoted was counterproductive . . . Moscow and Beijing have decided to put an end to the domination of the dollar in fixing the prices of the black gold. The petroyuan . . . promises to facilitate the transition to a multi-polar monetary system . . . that takes various currencies into account and reflects the correlation of forces in the current world order.

None dare call it Conspiracy

Jewish traitor and fascist dictator President F. D. Roosevelt said, "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." He was in a good position to know: he was very much behind World War II.

"When you think about it, there are only two theories of history. Either things happen by accident neither planned nor caused by anybody, or they happen because they are planned and somebody causes them to happen. In reality it is the "accidental theory of history" preached in the unhallowed Halls of Ivy which should be ridiculed . . . Why is it that virtually all "reputable" scholars and mass media columnists and commentators reject the cause and effect or conspiratorial theory of history" (Gary Allen, None Dare Call it Conspiracy, p. 8-9)?

Our Sick Society eagerly creates Sick Children

May 21, 2016 — It's an all out assault on future generations. There is no sense in raising decent children only to participate in a dishonorable society.

ZPG, they called it. Zero Population Growth. The argument made sense, so the movement caught on. Too many people in the world, they said. It made sense to limit the number of children we had, or not to have any at all. Trouble is, it was a Jew scam, aimed at depleting the labor pools of the high-tech countries in order to replace the absent population caused by abortion and birth control with low-tech immigrants who could be more easily trained as suitable slaves in the Jewish master plan to control the whole world.

You see the punchline today—Jews saying we need to import Muslims to compensate for our flagging birth rate.

While the program might have been a good idea in China or India, whose streets remain chronically clogged with starving beggars, that's not where it was implemented. ZPG never reached Africa or the Islamic world, whose burgeoning birth rates have now turned out to be a death sentence for the highly developed Western nations, where problematic labor shortages are about to be solved by a pre-planned influx of unskilled Third World immigrants who relish the irony of being supported by a government funded by the very people who are being exterminated.

A totalitarian government desires stupid citizens it can manipulate into carrying out its evil ends. Today, in addition to flooding developed countries with naive and exploitable immigrants, a master plan of reducing the health and intelligence of its own children is well underway.

A similar scam occurred around the turn of the century—from the 19th to the 20th, that is—when our friendly media manipulators, in the frightening form of Jewish suffrage groups . . . Full story: therebel.is

Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe

May 18, 2016 — This week, a Standing Committee of plant scientists from 28 member states in Europe is likely to endorse the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) findings so that the European Commission (under pressure from Monsanto, Glyphosate Task Force and others) can re-authorise glyphosate for another nine years. This is despite the WHO classifying glyphosate as being "probably carcinogenic" to humans . . .

Last year, Arthur Nelson noted that as many as 31 pesticides with a value running into billions of pounds could have been banned in the EU because of potential health risks, if a blocked EU paper on hormone-mimicking chemicals had been acted upon. A study by Sebastian Stehle and Ralph Schultz found 44.7% of 1,566 cases of measured insecticide concentrations (MICs) in EU surface waters exceeded their respective regulatory acceptable concentrations. The meta-analysis challenges the efficacy of the regulatory environmental risk assessment conducted for pesticide authorisation in the EU.

Our food and agriculture system is in big trouble . . . because the global agritech/agribusiness sector is poisoning it, us and the environment with its pesticides, herbicides, GMOs and various other chemical inputs . . . made possible because of the agro-chemical industry's lavish funds, massive lobbying, slick PR, compliant politicians and scientists and its undermining and capture of regulatory and policy decision-making bodies that supposedly serve the public interest.

The situation in the US is possibly even worse and with TTIP on the horizon, Europeans could be in line for exposure to even more chemicals . . . 34,000 pesticides are currently registered . . . in the US. Drinking water is often contaminated by pesticides, and more babies are being born with preventable birth defects due to pesticide exposure. Chemicals show up in breast milk of mothers. Illnesses are on the rise too, including asthma, autism and learning disabilities, birth defects and reproductive dysfunction, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases and several types of cancer. The link with pesticide exposure is becoming increasingly evident . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

China plans to become GMO Giant

May 8, 2016 — President Xi Jinping and his Prime Minister, Li Keqiang . . . have decided to make China a world leader in . . . GMO and the related highly toxic (to humans) pesticides and herbicides . . . for the world, a major blow. In November, China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) made a failed bid to buy the Swiss-based Syngenta, the world's largest crop chemical pesticide and herbicide producer with 19 percent of the world market . . . sanctioning the ChemChina bid to become a "global player" in . . . population reduction . . .

The claim that GMO seeds and their paired chemical weed-killers such as Monsanto Roundup or Chinese-produced glyphosate copies of that will ever improve crop yield on "marginal soils" is worse than an error . . . either total ignorance of documented USA and other GMO planting experience, which documents a drop in yield and an inevitable rise in required chemicals required for weed and pest control . . . Or . . . something immoral . . .

This September, Russia's government announced it had approved a total ban on planting of any GMO crops in Russia. President Putin followed the decision with a speech in which he said the GMO ban will allow Russia to become a foremost world exporter of healthy, natural food crops. And this year, two-thirds of the 28-member EU states, including Germany and France, opted for a ban of GMO planting under new Brussels "opt-out" rules . . . Full story: journal-neo.org

Shadows and Types – Part III

The first of Israel's three great annual feasts spoke, in the presentation of the first sheaf, of the founding of the Church; the second, in the presentation of two leavened wave-loaves signifying the finished Church, Christ's Bride of all Ages. The third will speak, in the presentation the fruit of the fig tree: 144,000 elect Israelites born as a nation in one day to serve as the attendants of Christ's Bride.

Leviticus 23:23-32, "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no servile work therein: but you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.

"And on the tenth day of the seventh month there shall be a Day of Atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you; and you shall afflict your souls [fast], and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And you shall do no work in that same day: for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. Whatever soul that shall not be afflicted in that same day, shall be cut off from among His people. And whatever soul that does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. You shall do no manner of work: this shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It will be a sabbath of rest to you, and you will afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, you shall celebrate your sabbath".

Indolent satisfaction with a second-hand religion induced blind apostasy upon God's servant nation Israel by Talmudic indoctrination "that makes the Word of God of none effect" (Isaiah 8:20; Matthew 15:1-9). Israel is the enemy of God and the Gospel for our sakes, so that "the blessing of Abraham might come on us Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith" (Galatians 3:14). God ceased dealing with unbelieving Israel; now He is ending His dealings with unbelieving Gentiles (Romans 11; II Timothy 4:3-4). All denominations are apostate; Christ fulfilled His Mediation as Son of God, claimed the Book and resumed the prophetic office Son of man as King of kings and Judge (John 5:27; Revelation 5).

In Revelation 3:15-20 Jesus rebuked today's laid-back careless, care-less church, "You are neither cold nor hot . . . because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. You say, 'I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,' when you are morally wretched and miserable, spiritually bankrupt, blind to the faith, naked of the Blood, and know it not." Verse 20 shows Christ put out of the churches that bear His Name.

In 1964 the Lord showed Brother Branham a vision of the true vine and the false vine. "I didn't see the person. It was just a Voice" . . . He said, "The Bride will come in view for preview."

"And I looked coming to me, and I seen the most prettiest bunch of clean-dressed women I ever seen in my life. But each one of them, looked like, was dressed different. They all had long hair, and they were . . . longer sleeves and skirts and so forth, young women . . . They looked kind of, I'd say about, maybe, twenty."

"But when this Bride . . . She was looking right at . . . (The one was talking to me, and I standing together.) Her eyes . . . She was the cleanest, sweetest looking people I ever seen in my life. Look like it could been a dozen or more, just . . . I don't know how many was abreast, but there was just a group of them. And She passed by, sweetly with a air, and her eyes up, watching as She passed by. Oh, She was beautiful. I looked at her."

"And as She passed by, he said, "That's the Bride. Now, we will review the churches." And they come. I noticed them coming up. And when they come up, each one, look like, got worse. I never seen such a filthy bunch in my life. And when he said, "Next . . ." I heard a noise. And it said, "Next," said, "here comes the American group."

"Now, I am an American, but this just made me sick. I am not eloquent enough to, in a mixed audience, to say what was taking place; you'll have to read between the lines. But when the women were coming, the leader of them was a witch. She had a great long nose and a great big mouth. And all of them was dressed with some kind of lower clothes down here, but the top just had a strap that just a little, about half inch strap that moved up and went around them like this. And each woman had something on the order . . . Many of you, years ago used to . . . Remember, when we used to cut that paper, you know, newspaper, and make an old fly-brush?"

"How many remembers it? You know. Why, I think you used it in carnivals, you know. Hanging down like that, fringed paper, lace paper. They had something holding below them, like this, holding below them. All of this part was exposed. And each one had hair cut up real short and frizzy-looking things all over it like that, real short cut hair, and full of makeup: absolutely nothing but looked like street prostitutes. And they were walking with this paper. And the vulgarity . . . Now, the paper was what was hold in front of them; but when they passed the review stand, in the back of them . . . And to see the way they were going on in their foremost and their back part, and how they were acting . . . I thought, "Is that the church?"

"And there she went. And they were singing this here twist-and-roll songs, you know, ever what you call, going down, singing like, going behind . . . I said, "Is that the church?" And I was standing there. And in my heart I was crying. And this witch . . . To my notion it's nothing else in the world, but she's that World Council of Churches leading them right straight down the road where she was going. They went off to the left and disappeared in chaos, still beating this music and making real funny sounds, and shaking their bodies one side and then the other side, and then like that, carrying on like that, walking."

"And I just started to bow my head, and he said, "Wait, the Bride must come again." And I looked, and here they come again. And they passed by, sweet-looking little ladies. They was all looking right at me as they passed by. And I noticed each one was dressed different. And one in the back had kinda long hair hanging down and had it rolled around like this, might been German or something like that. And I watched them. And then, as they started leaving, two or three of them in the back . . . get out of step. And I was going to holler at them, and they was trying to get back in step again. And I seen them just—the vision just fade out and change from me."

"Now, here is the interpretation thereof: . . . Now, remember. I had just got through writing . . . I hadn't finished; I hadn't wrote these notes yet. But in preaching this morning, I caught what it was right in my sermon . . . And not knowing it till just a few minutes ago . . . See? Did you notice the Bride come in view twice? The first Seed and the second Seed, both of them exactly the same one. And the reason they were dressed in different parts, she'll come from all nations; it'll make up the Bride. Each one had long hair and no makeup, and real pretty girls. And they were watching me. That represented the Bride coming out of all nations. Each one represented a nation, as they marched perfectly in line with the Word. See?

"And then, I have to watch Her. She'll get out of step with that Word if I don't watch when she's passing by, if she gets by. Maybe it'll be my time when I'm over (See?), when I'm finished, or whatever it is."

"Watch. They was getting back, trying their best. They was getting back; they was getting in line, 'cause they was looking out somewhere else, watching about that church that just went into chaos. But two . . . The front ones never. The back ones—just two or three of them, was kinda stepped out a little bit to the right-hand side, and looked like was trying to get back in line as they went by. They was just passing me, oh, far as here to the wall, passing me. I was standing there. And then I just seen them all just move out and leave."

"But you notice, the church only came into view once, each nation, the church. But the Bride come in twice. See? See what it was? Now, not knowing it, but look at it with my Message this morning, not knowing that. See?"

"The Seed fell in the ground at Nicaea. That was the original seed. And She's come through the process of these denominations which only comes in existence once. But the Bride returns back again in the last days: "I will restore." See? The Masterpiece is brought up. That's the reason She was in view—reviewed the second time. She was reviewed the first time; then she was reviewed the second time. And She's perfectly the second time like She was the first time. Oh, God, have mercy. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Life, get in the Grain right quick."

"All others never appeared no more. They went out never to come back again. But the Bride came back, 'cause She was Alpha and Omega. God, the Great Sculptor, has made Him a Masterpiece, for it is a piece of His first Masterpiece. Like He made in the Garden of Eden and took a piece from and made another piece and that was marred and fell; now He's been all this time building it up again. And He brought forth this Masterpiece, and was smitten in order—that Part that was smitten was in order to bring back again that Masterpiece again."

"So the Masterpiece and the Son of God—the Masterpiece and the Bride . . . And it's a piece of Him, which must be the fulfilling of the Word. The Word has been fulfilled, and we're ready for the Coming of the Lord" (The Masterpiece, p. 33:187-199).

Hosea 4, 5 and 6 prophesy in type how the northern Kingdom of Israel, then Judah, would apostatise from Yahweh Torah to the worship of the Babylonian trinity which non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews introduced into Christendom at the First Nicaea Council in AD325 where the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church organized as Jesus prophesied in Revelation 2. For their whoredom the Lord God dispersed the Kingdom of Israel, sent Nebuchadnezzar to transport the Judeans to a lifetime of captivity, destroyed His Temple, and placed Jerusalem under Gentile dominion till the consummation of life.

The trinity is "the mark of the beast." In the next few years the United States and her (once) Protestant daughters will unite church and state under Rome and force trinitarianism on pain of death (Revelation 13:15-18).

The following history shows how natural Israel and Judah type the natural or false vine church. Hosea 5:8 – 6:-11, "Blow the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: Sound an alarm at Bethaven, behind you, Benjamin. Ephraim will become a desert in the day of rebuke and what I declare concerning the tribes of Israel is sure".

In the Spirit God's judgment is seen as already inflicted. The arrival of the enemy is announced in the form of an injunction to blow an alarm from the lofty heights of Gibeah and Ramah in Benjamin whose allotment on Judah's the northern border signifies the whole of the southern Kingdom. Thus Judah is already menaced and Ephraim/Israel, which adjoins Benjamin on the north, is already occupied. Ephraim is hopelessly impenitent; Israel is to be destroyed and her people exiled within the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian Empires till the Lord gathers them to the Land of the Covenant in the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week.

"The princes of Judah are like those who move the boundary: I will pour out My wrath upon them like water. Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he determined to follow human statutes [in contrast to the ordinances of God, alluding to Jeroboam's commandment to worship the calves at Dan and Bethel (II Kings 10:28-33; Acts 5:29)]".

By joining with Israel in idolatry Judah broke down the barriers between Jehovah and the idols and is subject to the curse of Deuteronomy 27:17. Ahaz and his courtiers introduced an idolatrous altar from Damascus (II Kings 16:10-18); also he burnt his children in the valley of Hinnom after the abominations of the heathen (II Chronicles 28:3). God's anger will seize upon them like a full stream of water.

"Therefore I am like a moth [slowly devouring] Ephraim, [the ten tribes, as a garment], and as rottenness [which slowly consumes the body] to the house of Judah. When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria. [First, Menahem (II Kings 15:19) applied to Pul (Tiglath-pileser III); and again, Hoshea went to Shalmaneser (II Kings 17:3)], and [Judah] applied to his contender, Tiglath-pileser for aid against Syria and Israel (II Kings 16:7,8; II Chronicles 28:16-21); but Assyria could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound."

"For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear to pieces and return to my lair; I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver him. I will go away and return to My place [and withdraw My favour] till they acknowledge their offence, and seek My face: in their affliction [the great tribulation] they will seek Me earnestly [after the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week and the martyrdom and resurrection of their 'Moses and Elijah']".

God states emphatically that they can as little defend themselves from His judgments as they can from an attack by lions. And as the lion, without fear of being attacked, withdraws into his lair so the Lord withdraws into heaven; none can or dare call Him to account until they make expiation. 2,700 years of suffering will drive an election of 144,000 to God.

Hosea 6:1-3 prophesies the happy termination of Israel's punishment for unbelief under the Seven Trumpet Judgments through 2,000 years of the Gentile dispensation to the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet in Daniel's Seventieth Week.

"Come, and let us return to the Lord: for He has torn, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He will come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth".

We know from Psalm 90:4 and II Peter 3:8 that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Hosea was prophesying in about 780BC, and we are speaking and listening in AD2016. As 780 + 2,016 = 2,796 is well "after two days" we live in "the third day wherein the Lord will raise up 144,000 elect Israelites to live in His sight," favour and Presence with eternal Life (Revelation 14:1-5).

Like a lion the Lord tore and scattered apostate Israel but now the Gentiles are apostate. His Prophet has called the wise and foolish virgins OUT from Rome and her daughter churches that cannot see that God's Name is Lord Jesus Christ, and He is now poised to revive Israel. But He cannot deal simultaneously with His servants holding to the Old Covenant and His Wife under the New Covenant. So as Joseph dismissed his servants and sent his wife and children into the Palace before he revealed himself to his brethren, His Bride of all Ages must be resurrected and translated to the Palace for the Wedding Supper in the Air before His two prophets can introduce Christ's second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming to Israel.

Hosea 4:6 prophesied, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to Me. As you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your children." Thus the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel became an unknown and strange God to the pagan Israelite idolaters twisted by Talmudic and Jewish fables. But if they press on He will bring Spiritual Light by the rain of the Holy Spirit quickening understanding through the ministration of the two Hebrew prophets (Zechariah 4; Matthew 17:1-8; 24:31; Acts 1:10-11; Revelation 11). Then "the eyes of their understanding being enlightened they will know what is the hope of His calling, and the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints [and] receive the Gift of the Spirit" (Acts 2:38-39; Ephesians 1:18).

Contrary to popular belief the Israelites have not yet returned to the Promised Land (Psalm 17:7; Isaiah 6:10-13; 11:11-16; 13:14; 27:12-13; 49:17; Jeremiah 3:12-18; 16:15; 23:8; 31:8; Ezekiel 37:1-28; 39:27-28; Micah 5:3; 2:12-13; Zechariah 10:9-12; Matthew 24:29-31). "For fear of the Jews" they dare not return until Israel's defeat in the 'hot stage' of World War III triggers the exodus of Edomite and Khazar self-styled Jews (Zechariah 14:2). God cannot deal with Israel until the Church goes Home, and in order to "return to the Lord" the Israelites must return to Israel for their Covenant is of no effect outside the land of the Covenant.

Their resolve to return to Zion with penitent weeping will strengthen under the exigencies of unprecedented convulsions of nature during the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet, exhausting their welcome after millennia of exile among the now Muslim peoples of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. The Lord's chastisement will lead them to faith in the promise of the Covenant God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to "heal, revive and raise them up in His sight in the third day" (Deuteronomy 32:39).

Revelation 15:4 foretold the 144,000 elect Israelites will acknowledge the justice of God's judgments and not ascribe their plight to man or seek man to heal their wickedness and the wickedness of their forefathers but mourn their atonement. Zechariah 12: "Then we shall know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is as fixed and certain as each day dawn separates darkness from Light; and He will come to us as [refreshing and reviving] as the latter and former rains invigorate the earth".

This reflects the goodness, permanence and reliability of God's providence in accordance with His promise to Noah "I will not curse the ground again anymore for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite anymore every living thing [with water], as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:21-22). In contrast, Judah's "goodness is as [ephemeral] as a morning cloud [that rapidly dissolves], and as the early dew it goes away" (Hosea 6:4).

At the blast of the priests' trumpets Israel assembled, as it were under the banner and before the throne of their God. The voice of the trumpets imaged the Voice and Word of the Lord (Exodus 19:13-19; Isaiah 58:1; Revelation 1:10; 4:1), reminding them of their Covenant (Malachi 4:4), acknowledging God as King and reminding Him of His promises (Leviticus 23:23-25; Numbers 10:9; Isaiah 43:26). The feast of Trumpets on Tishri (October) 1 which commenced the sabbatical and civil year, and the year of Jubilee, also prepared for the Day of Atonement on Tishri 10. Joel 2:15-17, "Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the Bridegroom go forth of His chamber, and the Bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare Your people, O Lord, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: why should they among the peoples say, Where is their God?" This was the month for ingathering the last ripe fruits, as well as sowing. When the Great or Seventh Trumpet sounds, "Loud voices in heaven will pronounce, The kingdom of this world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever" (Revelation 11:15).

The Great Trumpet will mark the end of the Gentile dispensation and our Jubilee. It will call the first resurrection of the sleeping saints commencing on the third day, and the manifestation of the Token of the Life of Christ in living Sons of God waved as leavened loaves will consecrate the whole harvest of Christ's Bride prior to our body change and translation. All those in denominational walled cities will enter the tribulation as they cannot come out in the Jubilee (Leviticus 25:29-30).

The Sixth Seal will manifest from the sinking of Los Angeles at the Great or Seventh Trump marking the end of the Gentile dispensation. At this time the Pillar of Cloud will be raised as an "ensign" or signal over the Mount of Olives which will cleave in the midst toward the east and the west, demolishing es Sakhra, the Dome of the Rock, and the al Aqsa Mosque, thus igniting the 'hot stage' of the present World War III (Isaiah 29:6; Zechariah 14:4-5; Revelation 16:19). And as Israel failed to recognize the fulfilment of Zechariah 9:9 speaking of Messiah's first Coming, they will also not recognize Zechariah 14:4-5 speaking of His second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming.

Isaiah 18:3-4, "All you inhabiters of the world and dwellers upon the earth, as soon as an ensign, signal or rallying point is raised on the mountains [as when the Pillar of Cloud stands upon the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4)], you will see it; and when the [Great or Seventh] Trumpet is blown, you will hear it. For THUS SAITH THE LORD, I will take My rest, and I will consider in My dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a dew cloud in the heat of harvest".

In the shadow and type God called the Assyrians together on "the mountains" before Jerusalem to their destruction. King Hezekiah sought aid from Ethiopia's King Tirhakah, but the Lord God smote the Assyrians as they slept (Isaiah 37). In the antitype of Zechariah 14 the Lord calls on the entire world to witness the same divinely sent earthquake that swallows the foe open a way of escape to the Israelites (Ezekiel 38:20-21; Zechariah 14:4).

Isaiah 27:12-13: "In that day, the Lord will start His threshing from the channel of the River Euphrates to the Wady el-'Arish [or from the northern to the southern border of Israel], and you will be gathered one by one, O children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day that the Great Trumpet will be blown, and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and who were scattered in the land of Egypt (Ezekiel 34:4, 16) will return to freely worship the Lord in the Holy Mount at Jerusalem [after the earthquake that divides the Mount of Olives, demolishes the Dome of the Rock generating a Muslim invasion and the exodus of Israel's enemy the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews (Genesis 27:39-41)]".

God's Bible instructs us that the "children of Israel" will be gathered into the Land of the Covenant in the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week after the Seventh or Great Trumpet.

Zechariah 14:1-9, "When the Day of the Lord comes [at the Seventh or Great Trumpet that ends mans' day] Israel's spoil will be divided in its midst. All nations will gather against Jerusalem to battle; and the City will be taken, the houses rifled and the women raped; half of the City shall go forth into captivity [as the State of Palestine], and the rest of the Israelites will not be cut off from the City [which will become a corpus separatum when peace is restored and UN Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947 honoured]" (Isaiah 13:1-16; Joel 2:1-17; Malachi 4:1). "[After the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week] the Lord will go forth, and fight against those nations, as He fights in a day of war."

"His feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the middle eastward and westward by a very great valley; half of the mountain shall move northward and half southward. And you shall flee from the valley of My mountains; for the valley of My mountains shall reach unto Azal: you shall flee as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah King of Judah: and the Lord My God shall come, and all the saints with Him" (I Corinthians 15:52; I Thessalonians 4:14-16).

The place of His departure at His ascension will be the place of His return: and "this same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven shall return in like manner" (Acts 1:11). He will "come from the east, having the Seal of the living God" (Ezekiel 43:2; Matthew 24:27, 30; Revelation 7:2). "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be a unique day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be Light" (Matthew 24:27-31).

We live in the holy convocation of the fiftieth day of the antitype of Israel's Pentecost, a unique day and dispensation unrecognized by the world church system. In this dismal day of denominational confusion, of acquiring knowledge devoid of understanding, the Lord sent us a Prophet with Spiritual Light in the evening of the Gentile dispensation. After the Great Trumpet He will enlighten Israel through the ministry of the two angels of Zechariah 4 and Matthew 24:31.

"And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former [Dead] sea, and half of them toward the hinder [Mediterranean] sea: in summer [by the 'parousia' Coming of the Son of man to us Gentiles by the revelation of the Seven Seals in the present holy convocation for the Pentecostal Jubilee of Christ's Bride]; and in winter [by the 'parousia' Coming of the Son of man to Israel by the revelation of the Seven Trumpet mysteries in the antitype of their feast of Trumpets for the Atonement Day Jubilee of 144,000 elect Israelites]. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be only one Lord and His Name the only one" (Revelation 11:15; Isaiah 66:8).

Endued with the spirit and authority of a Moses and an Elijah, two prophets will expound the feast of Trumpets in the Land of the Covenant to reveal the mystery of Seven Trumpet Judgments that chastised unbelieving Israel through the Gentile dispensation. These mysteries will be revealed under the Sixth Seal, and their purpose, as Brother Branham explained, will be "To rush the Jews [he means Israelites], from all parts of the world, back into their homeland. It must be there [to fulfil their Day of Atonement]" (Recognizing your day and its Message, p. 8:37; Hebrews 11:11-13). He also said, "Many Jews in the United States (which they won't escape from) . . ." (COD, p. 97:235). And quoting Malachi 4:1, "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud . . . (like the Americans and so forth) . . . yea . . . all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: . . . (It's going to burn.) . . . and the day that cometh that shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts . . . it shall leave them neither root or branch" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 150:6). The plagues that preceded the deliverance of natural Israel from Egypt type the Seven Trumpet Judgments God sent to call Israel out of spiritual Egypt back into her homeland to fulfil their Day of Atonement. This was a shadow and type of the birth of the nation in one day (Isaiah 66:8), for on the Day of Atonement the sin of Israel had been removed, and its covenant relation to God restored.

Revelation 11:1-4 explains how the three and a half (prophetic) year ministry of Israel's prophets will be directed solely to a sanctified election of blood Israelites descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. "Rise, and measure the Temple of God, and the altar [that belongs to the Holy of Holies (Exodus 30:6; I Kings 6:22), and them that worship therein." Their 'Moses' will bring to mind the Law with its statutes and judgments for all Israel which is the pattern consecrated by the created Blood of God; the shadow and type after which Paul wrote the New Testament (Hebrews 9:1-23; Revelation 1:5; Malachi 4:4). The rending of the veil by Christ has brought the human antitypes to the altar, lampstand, and showbread of the Holy Place into the Most Holy Place, heaven. With this foundational understanding restored, the Israelites will recognize and renounce the blasphemous hypocrisy of Talmudism whereby Jews "made the commandments of God of none effect" (Matthew 15:1-9). Henceforth their 'Elijah' will be able to explain, perhaps by the example of Joseph who was a type of Jesus Messiah and by the history and revelation of the past 2,000 years, how the nation was chastised by the God of Israel according to the Law of Moses. Their rejection of the Gospel Trumpets which delivered the Voice and Word of God in seven successive Church Ages emulates the blasphemy of those who believed the spies at Kadesh-barnea and disbelieved God's promise. As their names were removed from the Book of Life, so are the names of those who received the Talmud in place of the vindicated Word of Moses, the prophets, and Christ's seven angel forerunners, thus "crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh" (Hebrews 6:6; Revelation 2-3).

Like Jesus Messiah, Joseph was loved of his father but despised by his brothers because he was a prophet with whom God spoke in spiritual dreams and visions. Thrown into a pit and supposedly killed by wild beasts, he was raised and sold for twenty pieces of silver. His brothers slew a young goat and dipped his coat of many colours in its blood. Jesus was sold for thirty pieces of silver and murdered by His brothers, then buried; but in three days He rose from the tomb, and "when the Day of Pentecost was full come" the rainbow crowning His head came back upon an election of believing men and women of diverse nations, tongues and colours of Adam's race.

Joseph was sold as a slave to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh; the Lord was with him and prospered everything he did. Potiphar's wife falsely accused Joseph and he was imprisoned, but God prospered him in the prison. Pharaoh's butler and baker were also imprisoned; each dreamed a dream, and according to Joseph's interpretation the baker was hanged and the butler was restored. Jesus was impaled on the Cross between two felons, the impenitent on the left was lost, and the elect penitent on the right was saved.

Do you see the shadows and types and the simplicity of the Gospel? Israel will recognize the substance by the shadow.

After two years Pharaoh dreamed complimentary dreams and his butler referred him to Joseph who interpreted the seven good years and the seven lean years and advised Pharaoh as to what he must do to preserve his people. And Pharaoh set Joseph over the land saying, "only in the throne will I be greater than you . . . and made him to ride in the second chariot which he had [I think it was a Chrysler]; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt." Likewise Jesus Messiah declared, "All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and He to whom the Son will reveal Him" (Isaiah 45:23; Matthew 11:27; Philippians 2:10).

Throughout the Church Ages God sent seven angels named Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley, and William Branham, crying "Bow the knee, our Joseph, Jesus Christ, is Coming." In each dispensation the elect received the Gospel Trumpet for their day, "bowed the knee" and were born-again. At war with the God of Abraham, Israel rejected the Trumpet of Gospel grace and received the Trumpet of judgment.

We have had seven good years or Church Ages. Soon the Lamb will take His Bride to be ever at His side—so FEW we will not be missed in the unprecedented convulsion of nature that introduces seven years of "the time of Jacob's trouble" and Edomite and Khazar Jews who are not Jacob's seed will not "be saved out of it" (Jeremiah 30:7). If they are in Adam's race their time of redemption is now, before God returns to Israel.

Amos 8:11 prophesied, "The days come when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of the Lord." This famine is now; few can find a Church serving "Spiritual food in due season" anywhere on the face of this earth.

Matthew 24:21-22 spoke of persecution that would come upon the Church from the natural and spiritual Serpent seed with increasing intensity such that unless God shortened the days by the Message of His prophet William Branham there would be no flesh saved for the translation. According to Ezekiel, Gog will re-communise Russia; to this end he has invaded the Ukraine from the USA. Toward the end of the seven years' tribulation Gog will exercise his "Samson Option" to annihilate Vatican City State and the United States, leading to Armageddon and the consummation. And as Joseph dismissed his servants and sent his Gentile wife and children into the palace before he revealed Himself to his brethren, our Joseph will steal His Gentile Bride into the Palace before the "seven lean years" at the end of which He will reveal Himself to His brethren.

The ordinance of the Day of Atonement was delivered after the death of Aaron's two sons, when they drew near before the Lord with strange fire in their censers and died (Leviticus 10). This ordinance of the Day of Atonement is the culmination of the Mosaic sacrificial worship. Israel rejected its Atonement—Jesus Messiah—and will soon restore animal sacrifices.

From Numbers 29:7-11 it appears that the offerings on the Day of Atonement were of a threefold kind—"the continual burnt-offering" of the daily morning and evening sacrifices, with their meat-and drink-offerings; the festive sacrifices of the day, consisting of "a ram for a burnt-offering" for the high-priest and the priesthood, and for the people one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year (with their meat-offerings) for a burnt-sacrifice, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; and, thirdly, and chiefly, the peculiar expiatory sacrifices of the day, which were a young bullock as a sin-offering for the high-priest, his house, and the sons of Aaron, and another sin-offering for the people, consisting of two goats, one "for the Lord" was "made sin" and sacrificed and its blood sprinkled as directed, while one "for Azazel," meaning separation, was the escaped goat sent away to a land of forgetfulness bearing "all the atoned for iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins" which had been confessed over and laid upon him by the high-priest. These fifteen sacrificial animals, including both goats, represented Jesus Christ "who has by one offering perfected forever those that are sanctified . . . and where there is remission, there is no longer any offering for sin" (Hebrews 10:14, 18).

Therefore, when the 144,000 elect Israelites fulfil their Day of Atonement—receiving the revelation of Jesus Christ and new birth—they will not kill a sacrifice but mourn for their unbelief and the unbelief of their forefathers.

Zechariah 12:10 – 13:1, "I will pour upon the House of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon [when godly King Josiah was slain]."

"And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the [royal] House of David alone, and their wives alone; the family of the house of Nathan [David's son] alone, and their wives alone; the family of the house of Levi [the priesthood] apart, and their wives apart; the family of [Levi's grandson] Shimei apart, and their wives apart; all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the House of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness".

Brother Branham said, "In this place it's called Israel to mourn for their sins. How perfect it is today. It's not the rekilling of it (which Moses symbolized in striking the rock the second time; it didn't work), not a killing of a beast, but a mourning of rejecting the Atonement. Oh, my."

"This will be the trumpet, the feast be a rejected, then their Messiah made known. Notice. They'll know their Messiah when they see Him. He's coming in power this time, the One they looked for. He's coming in power for the Gentile Bride, and the Jews are going to recognize Him . . . and when they do see the Atonement appear, the Bible said they'd separate one home from another and weep for days, like a family that's lost their only son. "Where did You get those wounds?"

He said, "In the house of My friend."

"Remember, the Bride's already in heaven. Joseph's wife was in the palace, and Joseph dismissed everything from around him, and he made himself known to his brothers. You see? His Wife, and children, and them was in the palace when He returns back to make Himself known to the Jews. There's the Atonement, there's your sound trumpet. There's where they say, "Where was them wounds come from? . . ."

"Remember what Joseph's brother said? Why, they said, "Now, we'll be killed sure enough. We did that; we did the evil"—like that."

He said, "No, God did this to save life." You remember the story in Genesis? See, see? So did He do it this way to save the life of the Gentile, the Bride. Said, "I got them in the house of My friend, but don't be angry, see, don't be afraid of yourself" . . . (The Feast of the Trumpets, p. 33:252-259).

Israel will "see" and "recognize" Jesus by faith through the ministry of their prophets, following their death, resurrection, glorification and ascension witnessed worldwide (Revelation 11:7-13). This will be the revelation of Christ's unseen second or 'parousia' Coming after the tribulation. After the nation is born-again in one day, the false church will hunt them down like dogs, "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem" (Zechariah 12:9).

Brother Branham explained that in the midst of the Daniel's Seventieth Week, "the antichrist covenant that the Jews have made with Rome will be broken. Rome and her allies then send their troops to destroy all the God-fearing, Word-abiding Jews."

"But as they come against the city to destroy it, there will appear in the heavens the sign of the Coming of the Son of Man with His mighty armies to destroy them who have been destroying the earth. With the enemy repulsed, Jesus then comes and presents Himself to the 144,000. [Not the physical return of the glorified Man; His precious feet will not touch this earth until He returns with the glorified saints of all ages, including the 144,000 Israelites "to tread down the wicked who will be nuclear ashes under the soles of their feet" (Malachi 4:1-3)]. Having seen His mighty acts of salvation, they have come to know His power. But also seeing His wounds and knowing that they had rejected Him even to that moment, causes them to cry out in the agony of terror and fear, even as did their brethren of old when they stood before Joseph, being sore afraid that they would be killed. But as Joseph said, "Don't be angry with yourselves. It is all right. God was in it all. He did it to preserve life." Even so will Jesus speak peace and love to them [as the Voice of the Archangel is speaking to your heart at this moment] (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 41).

Revelation 1:7, "Behold, He comes with clouds [of glory, the Shekinah or Pillar of Cloud]; and every eye shall see Him, and they also who pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen." As when He was seen upon the Mount of Transfiguration, He will be preceded by the two witnesses. And EVERY eye shall see Him. That means this is not the Rapture. This is when He comes to take over His rightful place as World Ruler. This is when those who have pierced Him with their creeds and denominational doctrines shall mourn, and all the people shall wail in terror because of Him who is the Word.

The seventh or sabbatical month closed the festive cycle, the Feast of Tabernacles on Tishri 15 being the last in the year. But before that grand festival of harvesting and thanksgiving Israel must, as a nation, be reconciled unto God, for only a people at peace with God might rejoice before Him in the blessing with which He had crowned the year. The import of the Day of Atonement, as preceding the Feast of Tabernacles, becomes more striking, when we remember that feast of harvest prefigured the final ingathering of all nations. In connection with this point it may also be well to remember that the Jubilee Year was always proclaimed on the Day of Atonement.

The feast of Tabernacles, or ingathering, commenced on Tishri 15 and extended for seven days followed by an eighth day which was a holy convocation. For the Israelites it commemorated the wilderness journey when they lived in tents. For Adam's race the first six days are a shadow and type of the six thousand years in which man has laboured against sin; the seventh day points to the millennium wherein the Kingdom is restored to Israel, ruled by David's greater Son, Jesus Christ. The millennium will be followed by the general resurrection and White Throne Judgment. The eighth day was not intended to conclude the feast but only to bring the annual cycle of feasts and time to a close, for it is a shadow of eternity in the renewed heavens and renewed earth hence joy was the prominent feature (Leviticus 23:33-44).

In John 7:2 and 37-39, Jesus alludes to the custom of drawing water from Siloam in a gold goblet "in the last day, that great day of the feast," the eighth day of the feast and pouring it mingled with wine on the sacrifice on the altar with great rejoicing. It was to the Words of Isaiah 12:3, which were repeated in commemoration of the water drawn from the rock in the desert that Jesus said, "If any one thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. I am the living Rock of living water. For Scripture declares that rivers of living water shall flow from the innermost being of he who believes in Me." He spoke concerning the baptism with the Holy Spirit which was to come.

Coming at daybreak the next day as they were extinguishing the artificial lights, two colossal golden candlesticks in the centre of the temple court, recalling the pillar of fire in the wilderness, Jesus said, "I am the Light of the world" (John 8:1-2, 13). As natural sunlight was eclipsing the artificial lights, Jesus implied, "I, the Sun of righteousness, am superseding your typical light." The Shekinah has shadowed believers in their wanderings through 6,000 years; it will be with us through the millennium and overshadow New Jerusalem throughout eternity.

"Behold, the day is coming, burning as a furnace; and all the arrogant and evildoers will be chaff: and the day is coming that will set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But to you who fear My Name the Sun of righteousness will arise with healing in its wings and you shall go forth [in the millennium], and grow up as calves of the stall" (Malachi 5:1-2; Matthew 3:12).

Time is in swift transition to eternity where shadow and type will be replaced by the eternal reality of the substance of things hoped for. nl923.htm

Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.